The stairs were covered in a thick black treacley varnish, on the first picture you can see the contrast in colour to the left of the newel post where I had performed a demonstration. You can clearly see the beautiful glow of the Kauri . The stairs were finished with our natural beeswax polish.
The floor was stripped with Easy Strip as oppose to being sanded. This way we kept the natural patination of the timbers with all the historic character it has developed over the years. Our client preferred a polyurethane finish due to the amount of traffic and exposure to the weather as people enter from outside.
